Currently the UK spends 1.5% of GDP on military assets and equipment, or £33,100,000,000, and 11,400,000,000 billion on foreign economic and military aid. 11 billion the 33.1 billion will be spent on the navy, 15 billion on the army and 7.1 billion on the airforce. UK Defence Spending 1692-2015 - Charts As you can see we spend to much on "aid" and not enough on assets. So what I think should be done is, 10.6 billion from the foreign aid budget to the defence budget, so the defence budget would be 43.7 billion, and the foreign aid budget would be 800 million, this in my view is a much better balance of government spending. The UK spends about 8 billion a year on the Afghanistan war, leaving around 25 billion a year to be spend on other operations, training and assets. I would leave Afghanistan under the current time table of 2014, so defence spending would only by 35.7 billion year. Over those 2 years the UK could spend 71.4 billion on assets, training and defence operations, most of the 71.4 billion would not be spent on assets, around 50 billion, leaving 21.4 billion to be spent on assets, up by 21.2 billion. This is why the UK is now having to cut so much, we are putting to much into foreign aid, and not enough in to defence. Then once we leave Afghanistan asset spending would go up by 4 billion, to 25.2 billion, and stay at that level for the next 6 years, giving a total asset budget of 97 billion over 8 years. I would spend 53 billion on the navy. Atleat 20 billion of that money would go on the 2 aircraft carrier, and their aircraft. As I would spend unto 12 billion on these to carriers, to make them as good a we could, than spend 7 billion on 50 F35B's, 25 per carrier, and 20 helicopters, 4 Chinook's cost 350 million, 4 Apache's cost 250 million, 6 merlins cost 150 million and 6 Lynx Wildcat's cost 100 million. Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Queen_Elizabeth_class_aircraft_carrier 1 billion on a reworked model of HMS Ocean, and her helicopters. 500 million building the ship, then another 500 million on her helicopters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ocean_(L12) 10 billion on 9 more type 45 destroyers, 1.1 billion each. 8 built for air defence and 4 multirole. Type 45 destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Type_45_destroyer 5 billion on 3 type 26 frigates, 500 million each, 3.5 billion on research, I would bring forward the built program, by 3 years, to 2018. 13 would be built in total. Global Combat Ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Global_Combat_Ship 5 billion on 5 stealth corvettes, 400 million each ship, 3 billion a research, the first one built in 2017, 15 ship in total would be built. The ship it would be most like would be the... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_(LCS-2) 6 billion on 5 Astute class submarines, cost 1.2 billion for each ship, 10 built in total, I would bring forward the building for the 5 ships to befor 2020. Astute class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Astute_class_submarine 500 million on 4 batch ll river class large patrol boats, cost on each boat 125 million. River class patrol vessel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia River_class_patrol_vessel 500 million on 20 archer class small patrol boats, cost 25 million on each boat. 2 billion on 10 anti mine boats, cost 100 million per boat, 1 billion in total, 1 billion on research. Sandown class minehunter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sandown_class_minesweeper 200 million on 1 new ice breaker and 2 new survey ships. List of active Royal Navy ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 3.8 million on 9 new supply ships. Royal Fleet Auxiliary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Do you think my budget would work? Do you think I am spending to much on the navy?
I think most UK citizens would love to have a bigger RN, and that includes me. The trouble was that as i have mentioned before, the previous goverment didnt spend enough on defence, when the times were good.....and now that they are not, the money that we could spend on defence, instead is being used to repay the countries debts. I seem to remember a year or two ago the previous defence minister gave out a huge list of additional Naval vessels the RN could of had (and it was a very impressive list) if things economically hadnt gone wrong. I do agree, i think we spend far too much on foreign aid....i mean its ridiculous that we give nations aid, who are better off than we are....in fact we should receive aid! Personally i think our foreign aid budget should be around £5 only! The unfortunate thing is that, out of all the time preiods in history, this is the one where the defence budget is unlikely to increase, due to the world economic crisis. In fact a recent senior general said that the economic crisis was the main threat to the UK at the moment, and that Britain could only afford to build up its military again after the country is in an economically stable state.
But foreign aid doesn't help the country, I mean the minister in charge of the budget said he wastes 20% of the money because he can't find ways of spending it. I think yes we should give money to other countries when bad things happen their, and pay some people off so our companies can do more business in places like India, but not 11.4 billion. Cameron is just doing it to help his backers make more money, and mean while the UK loses jobs. The foreign aid money could also be used for cutting fuel duty by anything upto 20p, now I wonder how much better the economy would be then. I am saying we have the money, and the military top brass knows it. I have seen then say Cameron is moving the military budget in the wrong way. And they 35 billion MOD black hole is that big because this government is cutting it by 8%. So much so the UK nolonger spends two percent of GDP on the military. Plus we still need more vehicles for the army, and more Eurofighter for the air force over the next 2 years.
